{"id":53,"date":"2002-07-22T19:26:44","date_gmt":"2002-07-22T23:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=53"},"modified":"2002-07-22T19:26:44","modified_gmt":"2002-07-22T23:26:44","slug":"less-than-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Less Than Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My father once taught remedial math at City College in New York. He had a student, nicknamed &#8220;Less Than Chance&#8221; Diaz, who would consistently, on four-option multiple choice exams with no guessing penalty, score below 25%. But at least the guy didn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nando.net\/nation\/story\/419466p-3343267c.html\">pass<\/a>. (Link courtesy of Kimberly Swygert over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homestead.com\/swygert\/files\/no2pencil.html\">No. 2 Pencil<\/a>, an interesting blog about standardized tests.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father once taught remedial math at City College in New York. He had a student, nicknamed &#8220;Less Than Chance&#8221; Diaz, who would consistently, on four-option multiple choice exams with no guessing penalty, score below 25%. But at least the guy didn&#8217;t pass. (Link courtesy of Kimberly Swygert over at No. 2 Pencil, an interesting <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=53' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}